Author Archives: Joyce Dalsheim

Outsiders are outraged when religious communities flout government regulations that are supposed to protect the general public. But we know that people give meaning to their experiences in different ways. Some ways of knowing the world have been denigrated as … Continue reading →

https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2018/12/05/its-a-big-mistake-to-see-racism-and-anti-semitism-as-an-eruption-of-a-dark-past/

I am very please to have been awarded a Luce/ACLS Fellowship in Religion, Journalism and International Affairs. I will be in residence at Northwestern University for the 2018-2019 academic year. See the announcement on CLAS Exchange.

Remarks delivered in accepting the Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award, September 17, 2015 Thank you very much. Thank you to the Dean of the Library, Anne Cooper-Moore, thank you Interim Dean Jay Raja, and, of course, Librarian, Stephanie Otis. And, … Continue reading →

See my recent opinion piece in openGlobalRights. Read this piece in Arabic. Read this piece in Hebrew.    

Another Gaza War: What if the Settlers Were Right? Joyce Dalsheim Before they were evicted from their homes and forcibly removed from their communities by the Israeli government in 2005, Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip warned that their removal … Continue reading →

I recently returned from Israel/Palestine where violence, fear, and hatred have reached unprecedented levels. When violence makes the international headlines everyday countless commentators and pundits weigh in with their analyses. Everyone is busily pointing fingers and laying blame, but understanding … Continue reading →

“The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again.” —   Theodor Adorno Those foreboding words, written in 1967, reflect on the possibility of life after Auschwitz and the agonizing burden of “never again.” Now, nearly seven decades … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about thinking– what it is, what difference it makes, why it is difficult– with a recent article by Elizabeth Povinelli (2012),  “The Will to Be Otherwise/The Effort of Endurance, ” in The South Atlantic Quarterly 111(3):453-475. Have … Continue reading →

 http://www.opendemocracy.net/joyce-dalsheim/banality-of-legal The Banality of Legal Joyce Dalsheim I admit it. I didn’t watch the trial. Or at least not the whole televised trial, but it was nearly impossible to turn on the television without seeing testimony or hearing commentary on … Continue reading →